From EETimes: Mediatek jumped to third place among mobile SoC vendors in the third quarter, and it has vowed to ship chips with 64-bit cores and LTE in 2014 as it makes a bid for markets beyond its stronghold in Asia.
Qualcomm rose to second place (behind Apple) in SoCs for tablets in the quarter in what one market watcher called a "dramatic turn."
The global smartphone applications processor market grew 31% from a year earlier to $4.9 billion, according to a Strategy Analytics report (subscription required).
Qualcomm, Apple, Mediatek, Samsung, and Spreadtrum were the top five revenue earners, capturing 80% of the smartphone SoC market in the quarter. Qualcomm continued to dominate the sector with a 53% revenue share. Mediatek took third place with 10%.
Mohit Bhushan, Mediatek's vice president and general manager of US corporate marketing, told us the company will integrate LTE into its SoCs in 2014. It also will roll out SoCs with 64-ARM cores using ARM's big.little architecture, targeting tablet and handsets. The integration will make Mediatek's chips "very mainstream and ready for the US [and] the European market" as the company aims at higher-end devices.
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